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Article #6102Re: ANSI <--> K&R conversion utilities
From: Norman Diamond
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 02:51
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 02:51
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In article <229900005@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Instead of worrying about ANSI-C to old-C translaters, why not just >get ANSI-C compilers? Why not avoid the whole mess and just get Ada compilers? :-I (irony) >There are things (i.e. passing float parameters) that are impossible >in old-C. It was possible in old-C by wrapping it in a struct. Just like arrays. >In any case, the best-selling C compilers already have large hunks >of ANSI-C in them. Yes, but it doesn't much help people who have to use unpopular machines which use poorly-selling C compilers. I'm not in that boat, but on their behalf, I urge you to use some sense. -- Norman Diamond, Sony Computer Science Lab (diamond%csl.sony.co.jp@relay.cs.net) The above opinions are my own. However, if you see this at Waterloo, Stanford, or Anterior, then their administrators must have approved of these opinions.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kddlab!titcca!sragwa!wsgw!socslgw!diamond!diamond From: diamond@diamond.csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ANSI <--> K&R conversion utilities Message-ID: <10341@socslgw.csl.sony.JUNET> Date: 8 Jun 89 02:51:20 GMT References: <89@<CLINE> <229900005@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@csl.sony.JUNET Reply-To: diamond@csl.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan Lines: 23